The PhD student will be employed by the CNRS and the project will take place at the University of Bordeaux, in the laboratory Ondes et Matière d'Aquitaine, within the Photonics and Materials team. The research project will involve working 3 months per year at the University of Wits in South Africa, in the group of Prof. Andrew Forbes. The candidate should have a master's degree with strong skills in optics and liquid crystals, and if possible a background in optical singularities and material topological defects. The candidate should be autonomous, curious, and have a strong team spirit. The work will be experimentally oriented and will involve setting up optical experiments, as well as modeling and simulation.
For three decades now, the optics and photonics research community has been paying increasing attention to structured light [1,2], which refers to a broad research topic encompassing both quantum and classical aspects of the essential role of all degrees of freedom of space towards improved knowledge and the emergence of new applications. Towards an ever more elaborate structuring of light on demand leads to imagine and design new toolboxes allowing to fully exploit all the advantages of light.
Our proposal aims at developing such toolboxes, both practical and conceptual, for the advanced management of classical and quantum structured light.
By proposing alternative strategies for generating, detecting and controlling translational and rotational degrees of freedom of light, we will contribute to fundamental research as well as to the advent of photonic technological innovations, e.g., in optical imaging, optical information, optical communications, optical beam/pulse shaping and optical manipulation. The proposed efforts will focus on the development of new nonlinear approaches as well as the improvement of existing linear optics based techniques, and liquid crystals will be used as versatile optical materials to realize such tasks.
1. H. Rubinztein-Dunlop et. al., Roadmap on structured light, J. Opt. 19, 013001 (2017)
2. A. Forbes, Structured light: tailored for purpose, OPN 31, 24-31 (2020)
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